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I also remember there being an Angry Birds style example project in amongst them.
Be aware that the "Angry Cats" tutorial uses the Box2D physics system. If you're not familiar with it, then do the basic physics tutorials before Angry Cats.
Does that zip file also contain the tutorial tutorials? I don't remember if the 1.4 tutorials were available as PDFs or only as webpages, and the tutorial text which explains how the Angry Cats project works probably would be useful for OP as well.